Old XKCD, still relevant
Old XKCD, still relevant
Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
Old XKCD, still relevant
Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
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tar -czvf tar_name.tar.gz ./
I even read this aloud in my head as "CREATE ZE VUCKING FILE" in a particularly bad German accent same as over 20 years ago when a friend I worked for drilled it in my head.
Read it in tf2 medics voice
I didn't realize that was my default German voice in my head. Thx
lol that’s honestly a great mnemonic
Yep, have this one committed to memory. Though if it asked me to uncompress a tarball, then I'd be fucked
tar xzvf this_awesome_file.tgz
… fixed. Apparently I can’t type.
I think you want to remove the c
because that means "create" an archive, and you're missing a z
which applies gzip decompression/compression
I suppose it is tar version dependent, but on any recent Linux version I have used, you can just tar xvf <tar_name.tar.{z,gz,xz,etc}> and it will automatically figure out if it is compressed, what tools were used to compress it, and how to decompress it.
But you are right, x and c are mutually exclusive.
Yeap, apparently I can’t type. So, we’d all be dead anyway with that bomb.
QED 🫠
File not found, now we are dead.
Sounds like an error message from a valid tar command